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Media Matters for America is the nation’s premier media watchdog. Cited as a trusted source of information by Fox News’ “Brain Room.”

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Media Matters for America @mmfa.bsky.social · Apr 16

Even as President Trump’s destructive tariffs disrupted the global economy and tanked the stock market, we found that among right-leaning online shows that self-categorize as nonpolitical, a full quarter of discussions still embraced the president’s deeply unpopular economic policy.

Study: Most Pro-Trump podcasters support Trump's tariffs but some fractures emerge

In a new study of top pro-Trump online shows in the days after President Donald Trump launched his formal tariff plan, Media Matters has found some dissension as his economic policy disrupts the globa...

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Media Matters for America @mmfa.bsky.social · 53m

In direct contrast to coverage from right-wing media, Portland residents and officials have emphasized that it's actually federal agents who have been engaging in “violent tactics” against protesters.

Right-wing media say Portland is a war zone under siege. Local news paints a different picture.

Right-wing media claim that Portland’s protests against Immigration and Customs Enforcement show a city “under siege” or “conquered by antifa,” but local news programs have reported the opposite. Mult...

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Media Matters for America @mmfa.bsky.social · 20h

Right-wing figures have called on Trump to use the law — allowing the military to be used for domestic law enforcement — in response to various demonstrations since at least as far back as 2020.

Right-wing media are calling for Trump to invoke the Insurrection Act

President Donald Trump recently suggested he may be willing to invoke the Insurrection Act as protests continue in Chicago and Portland against Immigration and Customs Enforcement activity and deploym...

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Media Matters for America @mmfa.bsky.social · 22h

Jesse Watters thanks Donald Trump for using the government to give Fox News content: “We look at the news and you see Trump is holding an antifa roundtable at the White House, and you just say thank you"

Media Matters for America @mmfa.bsky.social · 1d

As Trump sends the National Guard into US cities, right-wing media celebrate and call protests “an insurrection”

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Media Matters for America @mmfa.bsky.social · 1d

"It is funny to watch Trump be a Fox News producer... We look at the news and you see Trump is holding an antifa roundtable at the White House, and you just say thank you”

Jesse Watters thanks Donald Trump for using the government to give Fox News content

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Media Matters for America @mmfa.bsky.social · 1d

Some right-wing figures have urged stronger responses against protesters, suggesting the use of “lethal force” or “actual ammo”

As Trump sends the National Guard into US cities, right-wing media celebrate and call protests “an insurrection”

Right-wing media and right-leaning online show hosts have rallied behind President Donald Trump’s attempts to deploy the National Guard to Chicago and Portland, suggesting the Democrat-run cities are ...

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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 1d

The MAGA right’s cynical effort to rewrite the history of January 6 reached a new but seemingly inevitable low this week. www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/cal...

Calls for retaliatory prosecutions are the next phase in the right’s rewriting of January 6

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Media Matters for America @mmfa.bsky.social · 1d

Bannon claimed John Bolton, Andrew McCabe, John Brennan, James Comey, and Jim Clapper were “going to spend many, many, many years in a federal prison”

Steve Bannon claims Trump administration is working on "massive indictments" of several former top government officials

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Media Matters for America @mmfa.bsky.social · 2d

You don't say: Fox & Friends admits “coffee prices are soaring” due to Trump's tariffs
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helena hind @cynicalzoomer.bsky.social · 2d

NEW: We compiled some of Jesse Watters' most inflammatory takes — including claims that Dems are "at war" and that their “strategy” is “using bullets to bully us into political submission." Meanwhile, right-wing leaders demand the left tone down their rhetoric.

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Jesse Watters' history of inflammatory and dehumanizing remarks

Fox News host Jesse Watters’ inflammatory rhetoric has reached new lows during the second Trump administration. After the right-wing prime-time host said last week that America needed to bomb or “mayb...

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Vesper Henry @newsrepertoire.bsky.social · 2d

Bari Weiss is now CBS's editor in chief. Just two years ago, her outlet The Free Press was the springboard for an anti-trans "whistleblower" & a ban on care for trans youth in Missouri. The stories have been heavily scrutinized for falsehoods and inconsistencies

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Timeline: The unfolding saga between The Free Press and a Missouri gender clinic

Update (last updated 9/12/23): This article has been repeatedly updated with additional examples. The Free Press, the Bari Weiss outlet that claims to focus on stories “ignored or misconstrued in the ...

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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 2d

Why the right-wing media apparatus is suddenly yelling about Jack Smith supposedly spying on GOP senators www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/why...

Why the right-wing media apparatus is suddenly yelling about Jack Smith supposedly spying on GOP senators

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Media Matters for America @mmfa.bsky.social · 3d

After Jesse Watters said last week that America needed to bomb or “maybe gas” the United Nations headquarters, the UN reached out to Fox News and Watters privately apologized. The incident is part of a much larger pattern: www.mediamatters.org/jesse-watter...

Jesse Watters' history of inflammatory and dehumanizing remarks

Fox News host Jesse Watters’ inflammatory rhetoric has reached new lows during the second Trump administration. After the right-wing prime-time host said last week that America needed to bomb or “mayb...

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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 3d

A Trump-appointed judge just demolished right-wing fearmongering about Portland www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/tru...

Media Matters for America @mmfa.bsky.social · 3d

On MSNBC's Deadline: White House, Angelo Carusone discusses what Project 2025 reveals about the shutdown: "They were going to get rid of as many people as they possibly could independent of the shutdown"

Media Matters for America @mmfa.bsky.social · 3d

Despite Fox hosts pulling out all the stops to present Portland as a violent hellhole begging for federal intervention, a Trump-appointed judge blocked the deployment and noted the city's protests have been “small and uneventful.”

A Trump-appointed judge just demolished right-wing fearmongering about Portland

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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 6d

Mentions of the Obamacare subsidies whose elimination they support are few and far between, as the hosts instead try to redirect the attention of their audience and stoke their rage over the prospect of undocumented immigrants receiving benefits. www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/mas...

The masks slip as Fox propagandists reveal they want health care premiums to skyrocket

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Media Matters for America @mmfa.bsky.social · 6d

The masks slip as Fox propagandists reveal they want health care premiums to skyrocket

The masks slip as Fox propagandists reveal they want health care premiums to skyrocket

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Jason Campbell @jasonscampbell.bsky.social · 6d

MAGA throws a temper tantrum over Bad Bunny; Also, right-wing media cheers on a government shutdown.

This week's Media Matters newsletter: www.mediamatters.org/media-matter...

Media Matters weekly newsletter, October 3

Welcome back to Media Matters’ weekly newsletter. This week: Right-wing media’s Bad Bunny temper tantrum reveals who they think counts as American. Some MAGA media pundits were, and are, cheering for ...

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Media Matters for America @mmfa.bsky.social · 7d

This is allegedly still about Bad Bunny btw: www.mediamatters.org/newsmax/news...

Newsmax guest on ICE agents at the Super Bowl: "I want to see ICE agents tackling performers and bringing them off the field. Send them to Uganda with Kilmar Abrego Garcia."

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Alex Kaplan @alkapdc.bsky.social · 7d

Scoop:

Richard Mack, the leader of a far-right sheriffs group, told multiple far-right podcasts in late September that Tom Homan said he would send at least a member of his staff to the organization’s upcoming national conference. Homan said he'd "run it past" Trump if he could come himself too.

A far-right sheriffs organization says Trump “border czar” Tom Homan is sending a representative to its upcoming conference

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Jason Campbell @jasonscampbell.bsky.social · 8d

Newsmax host: “These poor government employees are now on a paid vacation”
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Media Matters for America @mmfa.bsky.social · 8d

Day three of the right-wing Bad Bunny meltdown: “NFL leadership has decided to hire a cross dressing, America-hating, ICE-hating Puerto Rican dude”

Benny Johnson on Bad Bunny at the Super Bowl: "NFL leadership has decided to hire a cross dressing, America-hating, ICE-hating Puerto Rican dude"

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Jason Campbell @jasonscampbell.bsky.social · 8d

Ben Shapiro: “It kind of feels like, you know, a government shutdown is mostly the stuff you need and kind of gets rid of a lot of the stuff you don't”
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Jason Campbell @jasonscampbell.bsky.social · 9d

Benny Johnson: “There is a government shutdown right now, and we are cheering for that. We say yes.”